The ruin of the ivory tower: the emergence of the stakeholder

Maarja Beerkens

Chapter 28 in Handbook on Higher Education Management and Governance, 2023, pp 417-428 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Stakeholder engagement has become a daily practice for contemporary universities. Stakeholders are involved in all levels of decision-making: from supra-national policy-making to universities’ strategic management, and down to curriculum-level quality evaluation. This chapter examines changes in higher education governance that have contributed to the rise of stakeholders, and it analyses the phenomenon within two intellectual streams that have helped to promote it, namely (private) ‘corporate governance’ and (public) ‘good governance’. Empirical literature on stakeholders in higher education shows a varied picture about their characteristics, nature of engagement, interests, and impact. The chapter concludes with a discussion on whether responsiveness to external stakeholders is a threat to the core academic values as sometimes questioned.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Education; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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